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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






2. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






3. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






4. English as a second language






5. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






6. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






7. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






8. State Board of Eduation






9. Academic Language Therapy Association






10. Multisensory Structured Language Education






11. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






12. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






13. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






14. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






15. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






16. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






17. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






18. Wide Range Achievement Test






19. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






20. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






21. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






22. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






23. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






24. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






25. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






26. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






27. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






28. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






29. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






30. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






31. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






32. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






33. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






34. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






35. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






36. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






37. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






38. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






39. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






40. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






41. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






42. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






43. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






44. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






45. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






46. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






47. Final stable syllable

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48. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






49. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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50. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.